NED Planning Team Member
Aviad Haramati
Aviad (Adi) Haramati is Professor and Director of Education in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he received a PhD in Physiology from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and came to Georgetown in 1985 after spending 5 years at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Haramati's research has focused on the regulation of kidney and electrolyte physiology during growth and in pathophysiological states such as heart failure, and his work has been supported by grants from the NIH, American Heart Association, and other organizations. However, his first love is teaching and he has been recognized with 5 Golden Apple awards from the School of Medicine. He also received the Kaiser-Permanente Excellence in Teaching of the Basic Sciences, the Arthur C. Guyton Teacher of the Year award by the American Physiological Society, and the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teaching Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Dr. Haramati is the past-president of the International Association of Medical Science Educators, past Vice-Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine, and a member of the executive committee of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium. Dr. Haramati co-founded Georgetown's Mini-Medical School program for the lay public, which includes lectures on both conventional and alternative medicine. He is principal investigator of a $ 1.7 million NIH grant that is funding a broad educational initiative aimed at incorporating complementary, alternative (CAM) and integrative medicine into the 4-year medical curriculum at Georgetown. The goal of the initiative is not to train practitioners of CAM, but rather to educate skillful, knowledgeable physicians who understand the role of CAM in healthcare and are capable of discussing these issues with their patients. Adi lives in Maryland with his wife, Claire, and their three children, Talia (20), Ariel (17) and Natan (13). (haramati@georgetown.edu, (202) 687-1021)